Risky Business: Hollywood and Israel

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In their new book Hollywood and Israel, film scholars Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman take us behind and beyond the screen to show how the world’s entertainment capital is an important player in international affairs and how profit always trumps propaganda.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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0:23.5	Ear Hustle, the award-winning radio-topia podcast featuring sounds and stories that come from American Prison Life, is back with a brand new season.
0:33.5	And they're also celebrating their 100th episode.
0:37.5	In the new season, the show revisits its very first episode, a listener favorite called Sellies, about the relationships formed inside a prison cell.
0:47.0	But this time, the whole episode takes place inside a woman's prison.
0:51.5	The producers also spent a marathon 14 hours out on the road at San Quentin for this season.
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1:09.5	Listen to Ear Hustle, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.5	This installment is called Whiskey Business.
1:21.5	When it comes to exploring the relationship between Israel and Hollywood, the 1960 film Exodus is usually the starting point.
1:33.5	Before you have a country, you have to have people. And that's the job that we've done.
1:38.5	Tens of thousands of people smuggling with a whole British Navy blockading the coast. Population.
1:43.5	Population we build is our most valid argument we have for independent.
1:48.5	The Israeli government actually had an operational plan for this movie called, of course, Operation Exodus.
1:56.5	I don't know of one nation with her existing hour in the past. It was not born in violence.
2:02.5	The story of how Exodus got made and what its supporters hoped to accomplish commercially and ideologically, fills a key chapter in a new book about Hollywood and Israel from a pair of film historians in scholars.
2:16.5	I'm Tony Shaw. I'm Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK.
2:22.5	I'm Giora Goodman. I'm a historian at Kinetic College on the Sea of Galilee in the north of Israel.
2:28.5	Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman's Hollywood in Israel is not your typical film studies book.
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